lol anything beats not deporting ANY illegals. Common..you are more savvy than that! When no one is deported, they ALL become legal eventually. And they all can apply for citizenship when the right president comes to power.
Allowing those who have long records of many years of productive work, is better than deporting ZERO illegals, any day in my book of common sense.
Has anyone, including Obama, said no more deportations? Deportation goes on daily in this country. Obama has drastically reduced the numbers, but even he can't ignore the law.
As it turns out, the administration's claims of record deportations are "a little deceptive," as the president once told a group of Latino journalists. A little! Internal documents made public as part of a lawsuit by ICE officers against their own agency confirm that ICE has been padding its deportation numbers by taking credit for removing tens of thousands of illegal border crossers who were arrested by Border Patrol. They were held in ICE detention centers for just a few hours before removal. These cases represented about half of all deportations in the "record" counts of the last two years.
This is how the administration has been able to cover up plummeting interior arrests and give the false impression that they are vigorously enforcing immigration laws. In 2013, ICE agents encountered more than 700,000 aliens who could have been removed (which is a record, thanks to new resources from Congress). Most were found in jails. But they took action against fewer than 200,000; meaning that ICE is now releasing more illegal aliens — including criminal aliens — than it is arresting.
The proponents of amnesty are wont to create the false choice between a blanket amnesty and mass deportation of 12 to 20 million illegal aliens. In reality, we have other choices and alternatives that don’t reward people who have broken our laws with the right to stay and work here and an eventual path to citizenship. The 12 to 20 million illegal aliens did not enter this country overnight and they will not leave overnight. Attrition through enforcement works. We have empirical data from Georgia, Oklahoma, and Arizona proving that it does.
Allowing those who have long records of many years of productive work, is better than deporting ZERO illegals, any day in my book of common sense.
Many of these lawbreakers who "have long records of many years of productive work" have committed multiple crimes including working illegally, ID theft, stealing SSNs, tax evasion, lying on employment forms, etc. Are these the kinds of people we want to reward with being able to stay and work here? Is it fair to the 4 million intending immigrants who have been waiting overseas to enter legally, many for years? They have completed all the paperwork and background investigations and physicals. Putting the lawbreakers at the head of the line sends the wrong kind of of message. When you reward something you get more of it.
There is no such choice of ZERO deportations unless you want to change the law and stop all deportations. Then we will be overwhelmed.
What's better than that is the deportation of the 2 million criminal illegal aliens PLUS the deportation of the 18 million "non-criminal" illegal aliens.
Short of deporting the 18 million non criminal illegals, NOT allowing amnesty for them and enforcing the existing laws is better than allowing amnesty.
For non criminal illegals, Trump is for a Touch Back "deportation" with a Citizenship Amnesty. That's not deportation. That's amnesty for 18 million illegal aliens.
There's no two ways about it, that's terrible.